[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/harrow.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / harrow

[← H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/H/)

# harrow

«harrow» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a heavy frame with metal spikes or teeth, pulled over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (harrows); verb (harrow, harrows, harrowed, harrowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A harrow is a heavy frame with metal spikes or teeth, pulled over ploughed ground to break up the soil and make it ready for seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#m1)

2) (verb) To harrow is to go over the soil with a harrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A tool for farming, and in war a cruel iron tool used on captives. As a verb it means to break up soil. Interpretation: Isaiah uses the farmer's careful work as a picture of God's wise and orderly ways. In the primary lessons: a farm tool in farm tales; in the lessons it names the kind of tool a peasant uses after the plough; in stories «a harrow» can also be a thing that causes great pain (verb: to distress someone)

### examples

- Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x1)
- Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground? (Prophets ISA.28.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x2)
- And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. (Writings 1CH.20.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x3)
- The peasant left his plough and his harrow in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x4)
- Dad pulled the harrow behind the tractor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x5)
- The farmer harrowed the field before sowing the seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.584/)
- [Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1067/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «harrow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harrow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.